Wednesday, April 22, 2009
My Little Livada
Here is the New Bedding
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
The McGill sleep number bed
Well when I got home I showed this pick to Mark and told him, that I figured once we cut into the bed, basically taken the pillow top off, leaving only one side connected all the foam should be in separate pieces. If I was right then we should be able to leave the outlined foam in the mattress and just take the inner piece out, still leaving a nice foam eadge in the bed. I told him for three hundred dollars I could buy two twin aero bed with remotes that are designed to blow up and down with you laying on the bed. Then I threw in my sales pitch, I said I have tried to sell the bed on craigslist and have not had any bites, we only paid four hundred dollars. I said I know technically its worth 4 grand new, but really I said our mattress is only worth what someone will pay and I think I could probably sell it for under 500.00. Then I told him that while it may seem that we would be tearing up a good mattress really its all foam we can just put it all back and still have the same mattress. Then the kicker I said honey for three hundred dollars we save like 2500.00 since we don't have to buy a new bed. His looked up and said Ok lets do it. Whahooooo!!!! I grabbed the sizzers and he grabbed is fillet knife.
Just as we expected the foam pieces were all separated and in different colors, they had a little glue to keep them in place but they were still pretty easy to pull apart. Our goal was to remove the actual foam from the mattress (not the acutal fabric) and leave the layers of foam in the pillow top. I was excited I didn't have to pay 300.00 dollars for an expensive topper because my mattress has two of them one on each side. So as you see from the pic above that is the four inches of foam that outlines the mattress the lighter color thing my hand is on is the Aero bed we inserted. The pic below shows the bottom layer (purple) of the pillow top then the aero bed with the foam on the sides.
This next pic is the huge piece of foam we removed from the bed so we could put in the blow up beds. This piece is actually separate from the outlined edges so we really didn't have much cutting to do.
Here are my boys we made a tunnel with the inner foam, later I will cut it into two twin beds and put a zipper liner over it, I will store it under my bed.. I can't let it go to waste because its like NASA foam or something. LOL It will be good for company so your not sleeping on the floor and its really comfortable.
This pic below is what the topper looks under that is two layers including that purple foam. The little brown stripes you see are the Jerry rigged way we are keeping the bed together until we come up with a better idea, a mattress cover with zipper or sewing it, we don't know yet but something. We also had to make some cuts in the outlined foam for the mattress to be able to pump air in and out. It worked great.
I had gotten two 20% off coupons of the web and each Aero bed had a 25 dollar gift card to bed bath and beyond with the purchase of each Aero bed, so I saved 30.00 bucks on each and get a gift card. Which I will use to buy my sheets. Ended up being like 240.00 instead of 300.00. So I get home and we realize the Aero beds I bought our 14 inches which we could make work but a shorter one would be easier, since we were keeping the pillow tops on both sides of our mattress. I told Mark they had another bed that was only nine inches for 140.00 but only a 10.00 gift card with each bed, he said it would still be better so I called the store had the guy set them at the front so all Mark had to do was take them back and pick up the new ones. So Mark gets back home and was so excited. The other two bed that we thought were 139.00 were on sell for 50% off and we still got the 20% off plus we still get two gift cards for $10.00 each. So now we only spend 110.00 dollars with tax and that doesn't include the gift card. "Oh yeah Mom and April and Alicia will be getting emails from bed bath and beyond for 20% off coupons you can only get one per email so I needed more and signed yall up, you can just forward the coupon to me unless you want it." ( hope you don't mind). Anyway I told Mark I thought God was really working the first time with the deal I got and now I know he was really working with the deal Mark got.
This is a pic of the air beds we are using and below are the remotes we each have one for our own side of the bed. This bed comes with a three year warranty so if the bed gets a hole or the pumps go out they will replace it, but to be honest its still worth buying another one in a year or two if it doesn't hold up, it sure beats spending 3000.00 on the sleep number bed I wanted. Not to mention they don't even make a sleep number bed with the quality of foam I have on my topper but the highest end model they had is 5100.00 with out tax or delivery and I know delivery which they make you use is 250.00. You can't pick the beds up yourself select comfort makes sure of that.
Here is a picture below of everything put together and the mattress so you can see what it looks like with the sheet on it. The cord you see is for the Remote, we just lay those over the frame or if you want to hide them you can put them under a pillow once the bed is made. We were still able to fit our sheets on because we made a place in the mattress so the cords to the pump and remote come out from the bottom.
This pic just gives you a view of how big the bed is and we slept on it last night we are giving it a two week test period to see if it works and so far last night was great. Mark woke me this morning when he left at 3.00 AM. and asked how I felt, I was great and he said he felt awesome. So only time will tell but it really turned out so much better than I imagined. We were both not to sure and when we got it all together we layed on the bed and slapped high five. You will really be surprised at how sturdy it is and you can't feel each other getting in or out of the bed. There are no more sink holes or getting stuck in the bed. For anyone thinking of a foam mattress after you sleep for about four hours you body makes an impression and it takes about two hours for that impression to come back to the right form. Unlike the commercials where you see the Hand print come right back, when you lay on it for a long time it doesn't come back that fast, oh and they hold body heat in and make you hot.
So the next step will be the bedding I ordered which I got for a great deal, Thank you Auntie Kay. I had some birthday money and this is were I wanted it to go. I will put pics out of my bedding when it all gets here. I can't wait for my family to see this and lay on it. Hey Jared and Jen since you guys have the same mattress we can fix it for you.. LOL It took about two hours of Labor and 110.00 dollars. Wow I had been praying for God to do something we could afford. In Jan the sleep number beds were on sale for 50% off and I prayed and prayed God would somehow bring us the money we needed like 2000.00 but God never did then they went back to regular price. So with all this savings we got I am really thinking this is the way the Lord wanted us to go. I am just amazed at how good it turned out. Of course Max gets on the bed and pumps all the air out then pumps it back up then back and forth finally I said ok boy that is enough. Good thing I have the warranty. Oh the bed is not fragile either (hint hint) you can still wrestle on it or let the kids play and bounce. A twin can hold to grown people. LOL well I wanted to share Yall all have a good day.
Monday, February 16, 2009
I just had to do this, thought it was funny!!
1.He's sitting in front of the TV, what is on the screen? Um probably stargate but only if I am sitting there with him, if not then usually some hunting show or mechanic show
2.You're out to eat; what kind of dressing does he get on his salad?
He always orders a Cesar, if they don't have that then he will get ranch
3.What's one food he doesn't like? This is hard because he likes most foods, so here's the best I can do. He doesn't like really greasy foods. He would always prefer healthy but he married me so that is not something I am good at making but hey we never really fry anything anymore.
4. You go out to eat and have a drink. What does he order? He will always order Tea or Water. Then he sips on my coke. LOL I am not kidding.
5.Where did he go to high school? Catholic high
6.What size shoe does he wear? size 11
7.If he was to collect anything, what would it be? Coke cans, he just started before that I would say he collects trash in the car..LOL
8.What kind of sandwich does he like? He likes deli sandwiches, subway is his favorite fast food he will make some kind of weird sandwich but he gets peppers on it and its always spicy and gadwalls turkey sandwich he likes but he says they use to much butter on the bread, told ya, he has issues with greasy food.
9.What would this person eat every day if he could? He would eat Zone bars.
10.What is his favorite cereal? Lucky Charms
11.What would he never wear? He will never wear a shirt with quarter inch sleeves
12.What is his favorite sports team? The HOGS as far as I know.
13.Who did he vote for? McCain I believe.
14.Who is his best friend? That's easy its ME!!
15.What is something you do that he wishes you wouldn't do? There are to many to list, but If I had to pick one he would love it if I would quit telling him how to do things.
16.What is his favorite color? This I am not sure about
17.You bake him a cake for his birthday; what kind of cake?
Well I actually buy it because he fav is a cookie cake from the mall, of course he doesn't want a ton of icing so I tell them to go easy.
18.Did he play sports in high school? Yes, well he did till he met me then he quit and would tell his parents that he was going to practice but he would come see me. He supposedly played football for like a year I think. LOL
19.What could he spend hours doing? Well I can't say but its not hard to figure out. LOL He would look at used trucks for sale on the web, he loves that.
20.What is one unique talent he has? Well I really can't talk about this he would die.. If I put that kind of info on the web.. LOL
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Alrighty Rhonda- 6th pic 6th folder
This is the six pic in the six folder saved on my computer. This picture is of Aprils Thirteenth birthday. We had a swim party, hotel night at Holiday in. I was there for a bit I think Max was like six months old. Look how young THEY look...LOL Yeah I am not stupid!!!! and Of course I must add that Alicia still looks them same she never ages.. She had a ton of friends there and mom and Alicia stayed in the hotel with them I believe. So that is the story..
Friday, January 23, 2009
Happy Birthday To Blake !!
Blake has learned how to climb into Olivia's bed and steal her bottle, I try to get him to show me how he is doing it but this is as close as I can get.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Look at What my Mama got me.
Here are my new Babies!
I just started keeping these sweet girls this week. Oh I did ask their Mama's.
Below is Hannah Nicole she is five weeks old.
This is Ms. Kennedi she is three months old.
This pic is all the diapers that I changed yesterday. Between Blake, Olivia, Kennedi and Hannah. LOL ! Thank of how John and Kate must have felt.Kennedi was the only one that only pooped once. The others all pooped two or three times. I just thought yall would get a kick out of that.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Ok I just had to Post this real quick
They above picture is the destruction of a room that was clean not long ago and the little brown balls on the floor, well just look at the pic below.
Yes, that is right Cocoa puffs. The next pic is none other than the one who did this. I had Blake in his room playing then I heard this noise but waited a sec to finish my blog then I went to see, and realized he didn't just spill cereal he dumped it all over his floor and then he even put it in the dump truck in the first pick as if he was hauling it somewhere.
Now as to how he got the Box of Cereal, well that will be the question for Max.. because he is the little hoarder of food. I have found pop tarts and bread under the boys bed before. You would think we don't feed him. He gets up in the middle of the night to eat food. We have caught him sitting in the kitchen floor at two in the morning eating chips right next to the pantry door. Anyway just thought I would share what happened when I got up from the computer once I finished my blog. Oh Blake has that hat on because he wants to go outside with Jack and Max, but its to cold for him.
Well that seemed to work well.
Ok I have to post this real quick its a video below of Max crakin Olivia up. I know he is yelling VERY loud but she just loved it.